This guide is designed to assist Federal and State agencies, local school authorities, and other personnel concerned with planning or equipping school food service facilities. The document indicates the minimum quantity of equipment needed to efficiently operate a school food service by specifying the type, size, and quantity of equipment required…

The media center is generally one of the larger units of the school plant in which all students and teachers spend some time each day; therefore, effort should be made to create a pleasant and visually attractive learning environment. The purpose of this guide is to furnish established, tested guidelines for the planning and construction of…

This document incorporates the findings of a project initiated to find solutions to the problems of planning, designing, constructing, and utilizing facilities to house career education. The first section in part reproduces scenarios forecasting experts' consensus of views about technological change by the years 1985, 2000, and 2025. Facilities…

These guidelines are designed to help Maryland's educators and citizens make informed choices about the types of facilities they will provide for teaching science in grades K-12. They are not a blueprint for facilities nor are they an attempt to standardize all science programs or facilities, but seek to identify elements to consider, people to…

This publication was developed to assist educators, engineers, and architects in planning facilities for occupational education. The first section is primarily concerned with the educator's responsibilities for involving staff and community in orderly planning. The second part is concerned with the technical characteristics of occupational…

Recommendations are offered for an adequate physical education instructional program to be considered for all proposed construction in the state. Sizes and dimensions for indoor and outdoor facilities, at the elementary, middle, and high school level are provided, with specific recommendations for middle and high school gymnasiums. A concluding…

It is the purpose of this guide to provide established, well-tested guidelines for planning and constructing food service facilities. These guidelines attempt to get the most efficient and economical operation from a school's food service facilities by providing pertinent information for expanding and remodeling existing facilities, as well as…